JOY QUOTES IV

Joy is circulatory. There is the joy. Then disbelief that says you must be dreaming. Then the mental pause or step back to give the universe a chance to wake you. Then the return to see if the joy is still there--and there is the joy again, insanely real and undeservedly all yours.

GLEN DUNCAN

Talulla Rising


Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is medicine.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Here below is not the land of happiness; I know it not; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.

JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE

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Joy's recollection is no longer joy,
While Sorrow's memory is a sorrow still.

LORD BYRON

Marino Faliero


The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

JON KRAKAUER

Into the Wild


Joy is the best wine.

GEORGE ELIOT

Silas Marner


Joy flees from the selfish, it deserts the quarrelsome; it is hidden from the impure.

JAMES ALLEN

Morning and Evening Thoughts


This is a catastrophic universe, always; and subject to hidden reversals, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy never anything but the song of substance under pressure forced into new forms and shapes.

DORIS LESSING

Shikasta


Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings.

ROLLO MAY

Man's Search For Himself

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Joy comes and fills the self-emptied heart; it abides with the peaceful; its reign is with the pure.

JAMES ALLEN

Morning and Evening Thoughts


It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

"Badlands", Darkness on the Edge of Town


Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

ECKHART TOLLE

The Power of Now


Joy cannot remain with the selfish; it is wedded to Love.

JAMES ALLEN

Morning and Evening Thoughts


What matters an eternity of damnation to someone who has found in one second the infinity of joy?

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

"Le Mauvais Vitrier," Le Spleen de Paris